Data Scientist

hastingsdirect; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Annual bonus

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare

Cycle to work

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Hastings Direct, a digital insurance provider, seeks a Data Scientist in a hybrid role based in the UK to design, deploy and refine predictive pricing models. You will work within a team championing ML techniques to improve predictive performance on large datasets and translate model outputs into pricing strategies.

You will collaborate with pricing teams and deliver automated pipelines, using cloud platforms and modern data tools, while adhering to governance and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Connect data, analytics and ML models to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop and enhance models in the Market Pricing team to improve competitive positioning
• Create and maintain tools to support modelling activities
• Investigate and incorporate powerful new rating factors
• Collaborate with pricing teams to translate model outputs into actionable pricing strategies
• Build, improve and maintain data science and machine learning workflows used within Market Pricing
• Investigate issues across data, model and pipeline workflows
• Automate manual steps where this improves quality, speed or control
• Apply good engineering practices, including Git, code review, testing and documentation

Skills

Data science

ML models

Cloud platforms

Big data tools

Linux CLI

Git & testing

Code pipelines

Explainability

Pricing/insurance

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

Job description

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Leicester/Bexhill/London (Hybrid)

Unfortunately we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Welcome to Hastings Direct. We're a digital insurance provider with bold ambitions to become the best and biggest in the UK market. Over recent years, we've made huge investments in our digital capabilities, underpinned by our strong 4Cs culture, to ensure we continue to deliver market leading experiences for our customers. Supporting over four million customers, every interaction with us is shaped by thoughtful design, data-led decision making and a deep understanding of customer needs. Our Commercial, Digital and Marketing teams sit at the heart of this journey - combining entrepreneurial thinking, analytical insight and creativity to build market leading customer experience. From pricing and proposition design to intuitive digital journeys and compelling tone of voice, our teams are passionate about creating experiences that are not only effective, but genuinely enjoyable. As we continue to grow as an increasingly digitised business, our colleagues play a critical role in driving change, shaping the future and making a meaningful difference for our customers every day.

Role

We're looking for a Data Scientist to support the design, development and deployment of predictive pricing models that play a crucial role in driving the competitive positioning. This role is within a team of data scientists championing machine learning techniques to improve predictive performance using large datasets.

Accountabilities

• Build, develop and enhance models in the Market Pricing team to improve competitive positioning
• Create and maintain tools to support modelling activities
• Investigate and incorporate powerful new rating factors
• Collaborate with pricing teams to translate model outputs into actionable pricing strategies
• Build, improve and maintain data science and machine learning workflows used within Market Pricing
• Investigate issues across data, model and pipeline workflows
• Automate manual steps where this improves quality, speed or control
• Apply good engineering practices, including Git, code review, testing and documentation

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Ability to connect data, analytics and machine learning models to real-world customer and business outcomes, ensuring solutions deliver measurable value
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Exposure to modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark or similar
• Familiarity with Linux environments and confidence using the command line
• Experience with Git, code review and testing
• Experience building reliable, reusable and maintainable code or pipelines
• Understanding of model governance, responsible AI or explainability
• Beneficial to have experience in pricing, insurance, financial services or another regulated environment

The interview process:

• Recruiter screening call
• Intro with Hiring manager
• Interview with hiring team (with case study)

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website.

Benefits

• Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach
• Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus
• Financial wellbeing - as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes - discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
• Mental wellbeing programme - we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs
• There's more! - 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more ....

Join us and you'll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you'll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we'll give